The single-celled parasite Entamoeba histolytica infects 50 million people each year, killing nearly 70,000. Usually, this wily, shape-shifting amoeba causes nothing worse than diarrhea. But sometimes ...
The patient count in an outbreak traced to a farm restaurant in Canada has doubled from a week ago. The patients are infected with E. coli and some are also infected with the parasite Entamoeba ...
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Amoebae: The microscopic health threat lurking in our water supplies. Are we taking them seriously?
There’s a sinister health threat we’re not taking seriously enough, a new paper argues – and it’s not a virus, bacterium, nor ...
There’s almost no point in debating the first-line treatment for invasive amebiasis. The evidence is, frankly, settled. When we look at the heavy-hitting systematic reviews, from the 2013 BMJ review ...
Nicole Mackey-Lawrence and Bill Petri discuss how the adipokine leptin affects immunity to mucosal infections and describe a newly uncovered role for leptin-receptor polymorphisms in mediating human ...
The pathogenesis of a potentially fatal amoeba, Entamoeba histolytica (E. histolytica), has been discovered, showing that the organism uses a process coined as trogocytosis, to nibble sections of a ...
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